Hey Mike, Thanks for your input... the 'IndexWriter.close' call was actually in a 'finally' block around the merge code, without a 'catch', which I realized may have been hiding the exception (I didn't realize close would block if an exception had occurred).
I've moved the close out of the finally block, so hopefully if an exception was being hidden, I'll see it and report back. Thanks, Stu -----Original Message----- From: Michael McCandless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 4:40am To: java-user@lucene.apache.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Occasional Hang in IndexWriter.close() --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]